Server version number is not exposed

[nikclayton]

Describe the problem

The comment at #11995 (comment) says:

The fix has been merged into the repository and will be included in the upcoming Weblate 5.17 release.

I can't find a way to find out what version of Weblate a server (specifically, hosted.weblate.org) is running, to determine whether it has this change.

Solution brainstorm

Places I looked / expected to find it:

1. Somewhere in the page (e.g., the footer) of https://hosted.weblate.org/
2. On the "About" page, https://hosted.weblate.org/about/
3. On the "..." menu at the top right of each page
4. In the response to /api/, per https://docs.weblate.org/en/latest/api.html#api-entry-point
5. In the output from wlc

As far as I can tell it's not exposed in any of those places.

I expect the best place for the canonical source is in the response to /api/, and everything else can pick it up from there.

Describe alternatives you have considered

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Screenshots

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Additional context

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[nijel]

It is intentionally not exposed if the server is configured with HIDE_VERSION.

We do that purposely on hosted.weblate.org because it runs a non-released code, and that has caused quite some confusion before (showing the -dev version scared some users, and showing not-yet-released version was confusing as well).

[nikclayton]

Could you at least expose it through the API?

That solves two use cases:

1. It allows me to see if hosted Weblate contains the fix associated with a closed bug that mentions a version number.
2. It allows me to provide a specific version number in bug reports.

If not a version number, perhaps a Git commit SHA can be returned in the API?

[nijel]

Actually, it makes sense to relax this more for our use case. #18991 does that.